Guest Lectures and Conference Papers

1973-4
School of Visual Arts, New York
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn
Brooklyn College, New York
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Royal College of Art, London
Slade School of Art, London University
Westfield College, London University
Commonwealth Studies Institute, Exeter University

1975
Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
Visual Art Department, Flinders University, SA
Ewing and George Paton Gallery, Student Union, Melbourne University
Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
School of Architecture, Melbourne University
Art School, Newcastle College of Advanced Education
Power Institute of Fine Arts, University of Sydney

1976
Film and Television School, North Ryde, Sydney, panel
Australian Association of Tertiary Art and Design Education Conference, University of NSW
Conference on Art History/Theory in Art Colleges, State College of Victoria, Melbourne, convenor
Australian Art History Conference, LaTrobe University
Art Gallery Society, Art Gallery of NSW
Art Association of Australia Conference, Sydney University, convenor
Class Analysis Conference, Sydney University
School of General Studies, University of NSW
School of Art, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
School of Art, Tasmanian College of Advanced Education, Hobart and Launceston

1977
Related Arts Conference, NSW Department of Education
North Sydney Region Art Teachers” Conference, Kuringai
Newcastle Trades Hall and Art School, Newcastle College of Advanced Education (CAE)
School of Art and Design, Preston Institute of Technology
School of Art, Alexander Mackie CAE, Sydney
Art Masters and Mistresses” Inservice Course, NSW Department of Education
Class Analysis Conference, Sydney University, co-convenor

1978
School of Art, Newcastle CAE
Art Teachers” Inservice Course, NSW Department of Education
Languages Institute, Peking
St. George Region Inservice Course, NSW Department of Education
Australian Film Conference, University of NSW
Seminar on Education and the Arts, Paddington
Art Workshop, Sydney University
Sydney Girls High School
Art Teachers” Conference, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University
Sculpture Centre, the Rocks, Sydney, panel
ACT 1, Australian National University Arts Centre, panel
School of Art and Design, Preston Institute of Technology

1979 School of Art, Alexander Mackie CAE, Sydney
Blacktown City Library
Department of Visual Arts, Deakin University
Department of English, University of Sydney
Department of Government, University of Sydney
History Workshop Conference on “Realism”, London Polytechnic
Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, University of Birmingham
School of Art, Portsmouth Polytechnic
University College, London University
Department of Art, Leeds University

1980
Marxism and Art Caucus, College Art Association, New York
Nova Scotia School of Art and Design, Halifax, N.S.
Visual Arts Centre, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver
“Art in Action” Conference, Art Education Society, NSW Branch, Sydney
School of Art and Design, Newcastle CAE
School of Media and Communication Studies, NSW Institute of Technology
School of General Studies, University of Wollongong
Art Association of Australia Conference, Melbourne University

1981
School of Art, Leeds Polytechnic
Department of Anthropology, University of Sydney
Art Association of Australia Conference, University of Sydney, co-convenor
School of Art, Alexander Mackie CAE, Sydney
Conference on Australian Cartooning, Power Foundation, University of Sydney, convenor
School of Art and Design, Newcastle CAE
Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
School of Art, Prahran Community College, Melbourne

1982
Biennale of Sydney Forums, University of Sydney, session chair
Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, University of Birmingham
Art Education Society of NSW Annual Conference, Sydney Institute of Education
City Art Institute, Sydney CAE
Postgraduate seminar, Department of History, University of Sydney

1983
Marxism Summer School, Sydney
ANZART (Australian and New Zealand Artists” Festival), University of Tasmania, Hobart
Tasmanian Writers” Club, Hobart
“Perspecta” panels, Art Gallery of NSW, panel chair
Labor History Society, University of Sydney
“Tall Poppies” Conference, Australian Academy of the Humanities, Australian National University, Canberra
Art Association of Australia Annual Conference, Australian National Gallery, Canberra

1984
Perth Festival, Visual Arts Conference on Regionalism, keynote
Centre for Fine Arts, University of Western Australia, Perth
Artists” Week, Adelaide Festival of the Arts, panel
School of Architecture, University of Adelaide
Forum lecture, Canberra School of Art
Futures seminar, Society and Culture Syllabus Committee, NSW Department of Education
Biennale of Sydney Forums, session chair
Forum on Dreams, Fears and Desires exhibition, S.H.Ervin Gallery, Sydney, and Monash University Art Gallery, Melbourne
Institute of Aboriginal Studies Biennial Conference, Canberra
Futur*Fall Conference, Power Institute of Fine Arts, University of Sydney
Landscape & the Arts Conference, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University

1985
Pop Art Forum, Power Institute of Fine Arts, session chair
School of Architecture, University of New South Wales
Culture, the Arts, Media and Radical Politics Conference, New South Wales Institute of Technology Conference, Sydney
Art Association of Australia, University of Melbourne
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

1986
Art Gallery of NSW, Department of Education
Forum on “Golden Summers”, Power Foundation, University of Sydney
Henry Luce Foundation in American Art, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
School of Photography, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Henry Ford Museum and Edison Institute, Dearborn, Michigan
Conference on the Arts, Media and Radical Politics, NSW Institute of Technology, Sydney
Art Association of Australia, University of Melbourne
National Institute of Art Education, Annual Conference, University of Sydney
Sixth Biennale of Sydney Forums, Power Foundation, University of Sydney

1987
Perth Festival Visual Arts Conference, Perth
Art Association of Australia, Monash University, Melbourne
Perspecta Artists” Panel, Art Gallery of NSW, session chair
1988
College Art Association Annual Meeting, Houston
Artists” Week Panels, Adelaide Festival of Arts
British Association of Art Historians Annual Conference, Sheffield
Biennale of Sydney Forums, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
Forum on Amalgamations, NSW Teachers” Federation, session chair
Northern Rivers College of Advanced Education, Lismore
Art Association of Australia Annual Conference, City Art Institute, Sydney CAE, convenor
Inservice Course, Parramatta, NSW Department of Education
Annual Lecture, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

1989
Perspecta Forum, Artspace, Sydney
Australian Studies Association Conference, Sydney University Union
Inservice Course, Professional Services Centre, NSW Department of Education, Sydney
Department of General Studies, University of NSW
Art Association of Australia Annual Conference, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Forum on the New Syllabus, City Art Institute, Sydney CAE

1990
Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware
California Institute for the Arts, Valencia, CA
Visual Arts Department, University of California, San Diego
Department of History and Modernism Seminar, University of Texas at Austin
School of Art, University of California at Davis
Australian and New Zealand American Studies Association Annual Conference, University of Sydney, session convenor
Artforum, School of Art, University of Tasmania, Hobart
Now See Hear! Forum, Wellington City Art Gallery, Wellington
Genres of Criticism, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Yellow House Forum, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
Art Association of Australia Annual Conference, Art Gallery of NSW, session convenor

1991
College Art Association Annual Meeting, Washington
Department of Art History, College of Fine Arts, University of California, Irvine
Department of Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego
Art Association of Australia Annual Conference, Australian National Gallery, Canberra.
Max Dupain Seminar, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, chair.
Gallery Society, Art Gallery of New South Wales

1992
Talking About Aboriginal Art in Schools Art Teachers’ Inservice, Power Institute of Fine Arts and Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, convenor
Thinking Through New Zealand Art, Forum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Rupert Bunny Lecture Series, Department of Education, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Philosophy in the Quad series, Department of General Philosophy, University of Sydney

1994
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit
Department of Art, University of Chicago
Department of Art History, Northwestern University
School of Art, Pomona College, Claremont
Gallery Society, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney
Franz Philipp Memorial Lecture, Art Association of Australia, Monash University

1995
Department of Art, University of Chicago
Center for Studies in Modernism, University of Texas at Austin
Art History Department, University of California at Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Cultural Studies, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario
Industrial Modernism Conference, Center for the History of Business, Science and Technology, Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware, keynote lecture
Gallery Society, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Theory, Culture and Society Conference, Berlin
University of Colorado, Buffalo

1996
Dictionary of Art International Conference, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Art Association of Australian Annual Conference, University of Sydney
Gallery Society, Art Gallery of New South Wales

1997
UNESCO Forum on Narryngin Culture, Paris
Panel discussion on Visual Culture, Power Institute
Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut, Storrs
Department of Art, University of Florida, Gainsville
Department of Art History, University of California, Berkeley
Department of Art and Art History, Duke University
Duke University Museum of Art
High Museum, Atlanta
Department of Art History/Program in Gender Studies, University of Rochester
Centre for Studies in Modernism, University of Texas, Austin
Department of Art History, Barnard College, Columbia University

1998
Artists” Week, Adelaide Festival of Arts, Adelaide
Australian Social Institutions Conference, Centre for Media and Cultural Policy Conference, Australian National University, Canberra
Artspace, Sydney
Artspace, Auckland
National Art School, Sydney
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Department of Art History, University of Pennsylvania
“Art of Sight, Art of Mind” Futures Forum, National Association of the Visual Arts, Sydney

1999
Conceptual Art Panel, New School University, New York
Department of Art History, Yale University
Art and Economics Conference, Duke University
“Paisagem e Arte, a invençao da natureza, a evoluçao da olhar”, Comité Brasileiro de Historia da Arte, Sao Paulo
Art Gallery of New South Wales

2000
CIHA International Congress, London
Economic and Cultural Value Workshop, La Collina, Como
American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Detroit

2001
What is Contemporary Art? Lecture, University of Sydney
Richard Wollheim Conference, Society for Literature and Aesthetics, University of Sydney
Frida Kahlo exhibition, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Department of Art History, University of Michigan
Albert Kahn Panel, University of Michigan Art Museum, Ann Arbor

2002
Art Criticism and Art History conference, Clark Institute, Williamstown, and Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles
Department of Art History, University of California, Los Angeles
Centrum die Kulturen der Welt, Berlin

2003
Power Institute, University of Sydney
Department of Art and Art History. Duke University
Inaugural Lecture, Department of the History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh
School of Architecture, University of Sydney
“Arte e Vida” Conference, Bienal de Havana, Cuba

2004
Rockefeller Foundation Workshop on “Values and Valuing in the Arts and Culture.” Bellagio, Lake Como, Italy
Carnegie Museum of Art Women’s Committee
“Travel into Art: A Symposium in Honor of David Wilkins,”Department of the History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh
Keynote lectures at opening and closing symposia, Biennale of Sydney
Co-convener with Okwui Enwezor and Nancy Condee of the Symposium Modernity & Contemporaneity: Antinomies of Art and Culture After the Twentieth Century, University of Pittsburgh.

2005
“Marketing contemporary art in the conditions of contemporaneity,” paper in the session on History of the Auction House, College Art Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta.
Lecture on Modernity & contemporaneity Symposium, Center for the Arts in Society, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
“The Architecture of Aftermath,” paper to Clark Conference, Architecture Between Spectacle and Use, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
“World Contemporary Art” and panel on “Global Conceptualism” Centro Universitario Maria Antonia, University of São Paulo
Keynote address, Simposium, Bienal de Mercusol, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Keynote address, Art Association of Australia and New Zealand, University of Sydney

2006
“Contemporary Art: Institutions, Exclusions, Subversions,” College Art Association, Boston, panel chair and paper
“Art in the Age of Globalization: Directions in Contemporary Art Since 1989,” University of Florida
“Modernity and the Transformation of Chinese Art in the 20th Century,” Central Academy of Fine Arts and Chinese Civilization Center, University of Hong Kong
“Morbid Symptoms: Art, Art History and Visual Culture after 9/11 and the War on Terror, Art Historians Association Annual Meeting, Leeds
“Private Funding/Public Spaces: Foundations for Contemporary Art,” Sherman Foundation Forum, Sydney

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